New York City FC

New York City FC
Full nameNew York City Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)
FoundedMay 21, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-05-21)
StadiumYankee Stadium, The Bronx, New York
Citi Field, Queens, New York[6]
CapacityYankee Stadium: 28,743[7]
(expandable to 47,422)
Citi Field: 41,922[8]
OwnerCity Football Group (80%)
Marcelo Claure (10%)
Yankee Global Enterprises (10%)[9]
CEOBrad Sims
Head coachNick Cushing
LeagueMajor League Soccer
2024Eastern Conference: 6th
Overall: 13th
Playoffs: TBD
Websitenewyorkcityfc
Current season
Clubs owned by CFG
Listed in order of acquisition/foundation.
Bold indicates the club was founded by CFG.
* indicates the club was acquired by CFG.
§ indicates the club is co-owned.
2008Manchester City F.C.*
2009–2012
2013New York City FC§
2014Melbourne City FC*
Yokohama F. Marinos*§
2015–2016
2017Montevideo City Torque*
Girona FC*§
2018
2019Shenzhen Peng City F.C.*§
Mumbai City FC*§
2020Lommel S.K.*
ES Troyes AC*
2021
2022Palermo F.C.*§
2023Bahia*§

New York City Football Club, commonly known as New York City FC and sometimes shortened as NYCFC[10], is an American professional soccer club based in New York City. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The club is co-owned by City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, Yankee Global Enterprises, owners of the New York Yankees, and investor Marcelo Claure.

New York City played its first league game in the 2015 MLS season, as the twentieth expansion team of the league;[11] it is the first franchise based in the city, and the second in the New York metropolitan area, after the New York Red Bulls, with whom they contest the Hudson River Derby.[12] Since 2015, the club have primarily played their home games at Yankee Stadium (shared with baseball's New York Yankees) in the Bronx; several alternative venues have been used when Yankee Stadium is unavailable, such as Citi Field in Queens, and Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. Since the 2022 season, NYCFC has played at least six of its 17 home matches at Citi Field, across the street from the site of its planned soccer-specific stadium scheduled to open in 2027.[13][14][6]

After five years of performing well in the regular season but falling short in the playoffs, New York City FC won the club's first trophy, the 2021 MLS Cup.[15] The club then won its first international trophy when they defeated Atlas at the 2022 Campeones Cup, becoming the first New York–based club to win an international trophy.[16][17]

Based on attendance from the 2022 regular season and valuations by Forbes, New York City was the eighteenth best attended club in the league,[18] and the fourth most valuable, worth $800 million.[19]

  1. ^ Padilla, Janine. "Manchester City and the New York Yankees partner to launch New York City FC". NYCFC.com. MLS Digital. Archived from the original on August 29, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017. The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015.
  2. ^ Schieferdecker, Alex (December 3, 2016). "Opinion: Unimaginative Club Identities are the New Scourge of US Soccer". FiftyFive.One. Archived from the original on December 11, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017. NYCFC similarly started life with a beautiful but completely unhelpful crest. It didn't happen immediately, but enough fans have started to call the team "the Pigeons" to give me some hope of that fun, local, and interesting nickname sticking around.
  3. ^ Chale, Caitlyn (February 16, 2024). "The new NYCFC secondary kit is perfect in every way". Retrieved October 28, 2024. On Thursday, the Pigeons announced their new secondary kit for the 2024 season.
  4. ^ Clayton, Andy (November 6, 2016). "NYCFC's first-ever home playoff game at Yankee Stadium features uphill battle vs. Toronto FC". The New York Daily News. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved February 8, 2017. Scoring goals hasn't been the problem for Lampard (12), MVP candidate David Villa (23) and the rest of the Boys in Blue.
  5. ^ @newyorkcityfc (September 29, 2024). "A five star performance from the boys in Blue" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ a b "New York City Football Club Announces 2024 MLS Regular Season Schedule". NYCFC.com. Major League Soccer. December 20, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2024. NYCFC will play nine matches at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx and six at Citi Field in Queens. The venue for the Club's last two home matches of the regular season will be determined later in the year depending on MLB Playoffs.
  7. ^ Booth, Mark (March 9, 2017). "What's New for NYCFC This Season?". NYCFC.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2021. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Red, Christian (May 26, 2017). "Yankees front office paints optimistic financial outlook despite decline in ticket sales". Daily News. New York. Archived from the original on August 30, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017. The overall seating capacity has been reduced by nearly 5,000 seats, from 52,325 to 47,422.
  9. ^ Stock, Kyle (May 22, 2013). "Comcast, the Mets, and Other Winners in the New Man City-Yankees MLS Franchise". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference allgrownup was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Club Statement 21 May" (Press release). Manchester City FC. May 21, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  12. ^ "Yanks, Manchester City awarded MLS expansion team". Major League Baseball. May 21, 2013. Archived from the original on June 8, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2013.
  13. ^ "New York City FC Announce 2022 MLS Regular Season Schedule". NYCFC.com. Major League Soccer. December 15, 2021. Retrieved January 7, 2024. The Boys in Blue will play ten home matches at Yankee Stadium, with six fixtures to be played at Citi Field in Queens
  14. ^ "New York City Football Club Announces 2023 MLS Regular Season Schedule". NYCFC.com. Major League Soccer. December 20, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2024. The 2023 schedule features 28 matches against Eastern Conference opposition and six matches against teams from the Western Conference. NYCFC will play nine matches at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx and six at Citi Field in Queens. The venue for the Club's last two home matches of the regular season will be determined later in the year.
  15. ^ "New York City FC win MLS Cup 2021". MLS Soccer. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
  16. ^ "Campeones Cup champs! NYCFC knock off Atlas FC, 2-0". MLS. Archived from the original on September 15, 2022.
  17. ^ "Mark of a champion: NYCFC lay groundwork for another MLS Cup run". MLS. Archived from the original on September 20, 2022.
  18. ^ "2022 Major League Soccer Attendance". Soccer Stadium Digest. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  19. ^ "Major League Soccer's Most Valuable Clubs 2023: LAFC Is The First Billion-Dollar Franchise". Forbes. Retrieved May 7, 2023.